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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-24
THE FRENCH CRISIS.

There is no Disgusting the fact that France
is in state of acute crisis. The present sit
uation is the elimination of series of politi-
cal intrigues, fractional fights. dynastic con-
spiracies and personal scandals which, working
beneath the surface for long time, are now
working their way out. Behind it all it is pretty
evident that republican government in France
is on trial. Whether President Grevy resigns
or not, the situation is equally grave. If he
resigns, it will be because he is forced to do
so before the expiration of his constitutional
term of Office, and that will be revolution. LIZ
he does not resign, the revolution will take
some other shape. IL Grevy, near eighty, is
too old to deal with the situation, or to with
stand the forces combined against him. A
younger President might avert the crisis by
asserting his constitutional right to serve out
his term, and save himself while saving the
Constitution. This way of meeting the revo-
luton at the threshold might be made the
basis of popular appeal that would prove
very effective, and enable the President to
make himself master of the situation. But
M. Grevy is too old for that sort of thing. a
man over seventy has little ambition either
to lead or resist revolution. In fact, he
seems to have lost all control of the situation.
Without Ministry or considerable follow
ing, either in the Senate the Chamber of
Deputies he is President only in name. It is
painful situation for an old man to be placed
in, and is likely to end in the humiliating
close of an honored career. After his resigna-
ton, the deluge. The parties and factions
who have been clamoring for President
Crews resignation never agree sub
sequent course of action, and it is doubtful if
any of them can construct Ministry that
the other will not Immediately batter down.
The republicans are divided among them
selves, and the monarchists, opposed to any
kind Of a republic, are watching their oppor-
tunity to take advantage of the jealousies
and mistakes Of their opponents Meanwhile,
the worst feature of the situation is that
republican form of government is not firmly
rooted among the people, and if the storm
does come the ship of state is liable to drag
its anchor, and drift into new seas. The Re-
public is only in its seventeenth year, and the
record shows that in the last century France
has changed its form of government about
every twenty years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-24
SAWS WOOD AND SAYS NOTHING.

The Real Editor of the s.Atlanta Constitu-
ton" Observation-Disclosures Is the Man.
Atlanta Special to New York Sun
Permit to say that in your remarks on
that certainly remarkable paper, the Atlanta
Constitution, you have, to a certain extent, gone
astray. First, You discovered to the world that
there was Grady. Him you gave fame
editor. Later you announced that Capt. Evan
z. Howell was the man and Grady under
ling. Each time you have been in TIE
real editor of the Constitution is William Ac-
QUESTION Hsmphill. In the sunny Southland
we have a saying. applicable to the silent bat
deep and busy Of man. that '.he saws wood
and says nothing" That is Colonel Hemph.n
all over For him Captain Howell and Drum
Major Grady hewers OF wood and drawers
of Colonel Hemphill is handsome and
thrifty. All Is grist that comes to his mill, in
GLIDING the rags out of which he makes the
paper which the Constitution is printed.
doubt if there ia any newspaper proprietor
who makes more money for his paper in more
ways than Colonel Hemphill does. Does Joe
Brown appear in print, he pays Hemphill. Does
Hemphil Do the Y. NJ. c. A. people want
new building they pay Hemphl to let them
say so. He is the largest owner of Constitution
stock. This fight between Howell and Grady on
the wet and dry" question mas opened a great
field for Hemphill. You can safely bet q dollar
he makes both Howell and Grady pay for what
they say in the paper. William Acquisition
Hemphill is a man who suggests q nail-cutting
machine in active alton when he talks,
whose eyes have a range of vision keen
Rose telescope. Everybody pays tribute to
Hernphill. He is the editor of the Atlanta Con-
stitution, and You can gamble high on 1t.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-24

THE prospect that ex-Commissioner Sparks
intends to "make trouble" by remaining in
Washington, either in private capacity or
through an election to Congress, seems to
have alarmed the friends of the administra-
ton and to have started movement for get
ting him out of tho way. It is already limited
that as the President cherishes animosity
towards Mr.. Sparks, but, on the contrary,
regards him as man of ability and integrity,
it is not impossible that the ex-Commissioner
will be given lucrative foreign appointment,
as, for instance, the Mexican mission. Some
thing must be done, and that quickly, to
extinguish Sparks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-24
COM MENT AND OPINION.

| EVEN the most advanced thinkers at Andover
will have to admit that the trade dollar is past
Observation-Disclosures Chronicle.
JUDGING from the editorial expressions of the
Indiana press. we should say that there is fair
sized Harrison breeze springing up in Hoosier-
dom. Well, Harrison and Hawley would make
good ticket for 1888, and would Sherman
and Hawley. Cleveland Leader.
WHEN man commits an overt act against
law and order then jump in quick with your
club your jury and, IL Necessary es the hang
ones gable if it only Furnishes crime with mer
CHESS and relentless celerity.-New York Her
aid.
eve quarantine cholera, yellow fever and
partnent of political health, empowered to
search for paupers, lepers and criminals, and by
summary procedure to sieze the open and
blatant enemies OF our government who are not
citizens and send them home. "-Chancey NJ. De-
pew.
THERE is much talk on the part of persons
with feeble memories who possess limited in
formation in regard to the prodigious strides
which the cause of prohibition is making in this
country. The fact IS that Prohibition was far
stronger thirty years ago than it is now and was
in practical operation in more States then than
now.-Philadelphia Record
FREE trade is a fascinating political theory to
discuss at champagne dinners; or in clubs of
sublime theorists who knew more about the
industry of the land than dog does about his
paternal ancestor; or in whiskey ring circles
where it is profitable to overthrow all protection
claves where the maggots of the old Confeder-
ate love for mental labor still wriggle; but when
it to applying free trade to practical poll
tics even free traders compelled to skulk
from their own follies and get out of the way of
the procession of the people. Philadelphia
Times.
NEW YORK city ought to be able to deal with
the brute Most, only in his case hard work
should be added to imprisonment That is the
frightful thing which that scoundrel breads.
Think of it "a born blatherskite who can not
remember when he performed honest service
of any kind for a living. comes from abroad and
seeks to lash thoughtless people into discomfort
and crime. at the same time inveighing against
everything decent sacred! That is one of the
specimens that ought to be treated to light food
and heavy work. and confined as wild beasts
are, where he could do further harm.-Salt
Lake City Tribune.
Mr.. CLEVELAND and his sleepy Cabinet will
find Mr.. Dickinson hustler right from Hustler
vile. When he takes charge of the admins
tration and gets his men in line it is going to be
a regular Fourth of-July from that time on
You can bet sure thing if you bet on that
Some think that his first move will be to turn
the country upside down and spill out the mug
wumps. as they don't seem to be holding on
very tight, bnt don't bet that He is more
likely to dress the Higginses up in civilservice
uniforms. and send them out to preach the COS
pei of reform by day. and pack the primaries
by night.-Detroit Tribune.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-24
THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN.
Excitement Over the Approaching Election
the Prohbitory Question.

Excitement Over the Approaching Election
the Prohibitory Question.
Atlanta ga Special.
The election in this city, on the question of
adopting. for another two years the law prohib-
iting the sale of liquor, will take place Satur-
day, when over II, 900 votes will be cast TIE
campaign, as it stands to night. is singular and
deplorable. There is total suspension of bust
ness. and merchants we'll employees stand
in groups the streetcorners. wildly gestcu-
lating over the merits of the question. Nearly
every business firm in tho city is about equally
divided. The women are thoroughly stirred up,
and walk the streets with blue badges their
breasts. In fact, the women tonight
the center of the fight, having de-
clared their purpose of having lunch
stands at the different polls where
white ladies will wait upon negro men who will
vote the Prohibition ticket. The old people
shake their heads at this innovation but
prominent coiored man says of it: Il see in it
the greatest danger. White ladies inviting
this familiarity. and yet If one of young
men. emboldeped by this invitation, should
speak to one of them the next Cay he would
stand q mighty good chance of getting lynched."
Last night young gentleman escortiug two
young ladies home from the theater happened
remark that he was wet AT once they
dropped his arm. dismissed him and went homo
by themselves. The social ostracism is so pro-
nouuced that its effect will be felt long after
prohibitlon shall have become dead issue.
Both parties have parades every night this week
On Friday each party has announced monster
Getting. which will probably last all night SO
that the voters may attack the polls first
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-24
The Ticket for 1888.

Congressman Owens Interview
'sAs to our presidential candidates, the head
of the ticket will come from the West Indiana
will present Senator Harrison. and he will be
nominated. The chances Tor Hawley of
Connecticut for second place. The three Rs
wrune victory from rs in 1884, but we will WOO
it in 1888 by the melody of the three HIS. .Hur-
ran for Harrison and Hawieyi will be catchy.
Harrison and Hawley remove the last vestige of
question as to how Indiana and Connecticut will
CO. and without these the Democrats not
elect Harrison is strong man as we could
nominate for New York. He is an able man,
his record is without stain. and he ALWAYS
safe. Senator Hawley measures his equal in
every particular. They would make q ticket
unchallenged for purity, remarkable for ability
commanding the confidence OF all good citizens,
and would be elected"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-24
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

GOVERNOR AMEs, of Massachusetts,, carries
life insurance to the amount of SIPS, 600.
PERHAPS the first ship to go through the Pan
anna canal will be drawn by Kelly motor.
Mrs CELIA THAxTER, the artist and poet,
has become convert to esoteric Buddhism.
QUEEN VICTORIA has issued an order that the
Jubilee medal, of which about thousand have
been given away. is to rank above all war
medals and it is always to be worn ON those
full-dress occasions when ordinary medals are
de rigueur.
SELMA DoLARo is said to be arranging for
publication the poetry addressed to her by in
fatuated poem makers. No names or other
means of Identification will be given, and if the
verses are silly most addressed to pop
ular actresses, the book will have at least the
merit of being amusing, and in way instruc-
tive.
MANUEL GARCIA, the illustrious teacher of
singing, is about to celebrate his eighty-third
birthday. He says that Jenny Lind was one of
his most satisfactory pupils because be never
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-24

Maryland, is man who not only downs his
opponents in politics, but he does the same
thing in business matters. He has succeeded
in removing from the directory of the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad Mr.. John Z. Cowen,
who led the reformers in the recent contest
in Maryland, and it is said that German will
further pursue him until he is compelled to
resign as general counsel for the road. It
would seem that German comes pretty nearly
owning the State of Maryland, and that he is
a bad man to fool with.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-24
: Sham Reform.
New Albany Public Press (Dem.)

New Albany Public Press (Dem.)
The Public Press is becoming tired of preach
ing honesty, economy, reform and decency in
politics, while Democratic officials and those in
authority practicne dishonesty, extrava-
gance. corruption. indecency, incompetency and
insolence.
Garland and Lamar, trusted Cabinet officers
of Democratic President. cannot cure or heal
up the telephone corruption in which they were
connected, with a Democratic poultce. any
more than Credit Mobilier Republicans cured
their infamy by their boast of loyalty and Re-
publicanism.
thief q thief regardless of what political party
he may belong to. AS long Cleveland allowed
Lamar and Garland to remain in his Cabinet
after their names had been smirched by the tele-
phone scandal, he is guilty as they.
or, at least, he should have claim the re-
form the Democracy has been preaching so long.
And now it seems that Sparks rid
of and compelled to resign the Office of Land
Commissioner. that thu land sharks may feed
and fatten, and steal from the governments ae
the expense of the people.
w. f. Villas very incompetent Postmaster
general. is TO be transferred to the Interior De-
partment. and that he and his land shark friends
oct West may not he Embarrassed by the pres
ence and honest rulings of Sparks, in the Land
Office, Sparks was crowded out by very dishon-
orable and underianded methods He in
the way of the land thieves. with a big club in
his hands, with a will 70 use il. and il required
the mighty strength OF such Goiiahs as Lamar
and Cleveland to disarm him.
Sparks retires with a cleau honest record,
and nobody rejoices at his retirement but the
lard-thieves and their friends.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-24

THE Authors Readings to be given next Mon
day and Tuesday in Chickering Hall, New York.
in aid of the International Copyright fund, will
be notable event. James Russell Lowell is to
preside, and such authors as Howells, Cable
Curtis, Eggleston, Clemens Stockton and others
are to read from their own works. Indiana has
been specially honored by having Gen
eral Lew Wallace and James Whit
comb Riley invited to represent the
West, and Mr.. Riley will leave to-day to be
present and read some of his inimitable sketches
and poems ON that occasion. Mr.. Rileys histri-
onc abilities, as well the high grade of his
literary work, will give him opportunity to
make an impression in this notable company,
which should add to his already wide fame as an
author and reader.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-24
THE way Law Is ENFORCED.

Jacob Sharps, and Buddenseiks, and crimi-
nails of various high degrees may manage to
escape punishment; but when, as now and
then happens, New York justice takes. the
bandages off her eyes and starts in pursuit Of
offender, the guilty wretch cannot hope to
escape An instance of this kind is reported
in the case of Mr.. James Reilly, who, on the
night of the presidential election in 1884.
and doubtless while in state of mental exal-
tation not uncommon at such times, took a
handful of peanuts from a corner stand with
out the formality of paying for the same.
The Italian merchant made complaint, Mr..
Reilly was arrested, and his case set for trial,
but before the matter came up the prisoner
had escaped. Having, in the course of his
experience, taken note of the fact that thieves
who were dignifed with the name of hood
lers' usually found it entirely safe to return
from foreign parts within year or SO after
the commission of their crimes, Mr.. Reilly,
it may be supposed, not unnaturally thought
that in three years the abstraction of fstful
of peanuts might be outlawed. At all events
ue HAAS Ills appearance IN 4NeW Iofk iaSC
week. for the first time since 1884, and much
to his surprise was Immediately s'snatched"
by the officers of the law, and put in Jail on
the old charge. No legal delays were per-
nnitted to intervene on this occasion. Mr.
Reilly was not allowed to engage counsel
who required time for preparing defense.
No plea that he was in poor health, and con-
finement might be fatal, was given the least
attention. The arguments of friends that he
was good follow and meant harm, and
that his family would be greatly Inundated
by his Incarceration, failed to move the stern
and upright court from its course. The
guilty must be punished the law must be
sustained, and outraged justice, evaded for
three years. must be propitiated. Nothing
would suffice but that Mr.. Reilly must go to
the island for six months and there he was
sent. and there languishes. And then justice
went back, put the bandage on her eyes, and
forgot to take a squint at Jacob Sharp and
Herr Most, and multitude of other scamps,
to see how they enjoyed liberty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-24
THE present Board of Commissioners is 8

THE present Board of Commissioners is a
shame to the county. Their smallness is
contemplate, and their efforts to economics
merely the cheese pairing of men who have
no proper comprehension of their duties or
of the necessities Of the public service they
assume to control. The present Board most
vivedly calls to mind the late Tom Corwin's
explanation of why county commissioners
were provided for in the scheme of local gov
eminent. A conspicuous and yet representa-
tive instance of utter unfitness for their places
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-24

POSSIBLY such a campaign as is now "on"
in Atlanta over the question of prohibition
may be good thing for a city, and probably
not. For one we should pray to be spared
such an experience, especially when the net
result, even if 'tdry' carries at the polls, is
the substitution of all sorts of devices and
the resort to all manner of deceits and subter-
fuges to evade and defeat the law. There are
better ways in which to restrict, and regu-
late, and confine the public sale of intoxicants
in cities thar the Atlanta plan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-24

ONE of the rules adopted by the Civil
service Commission is calculated to make
people little careful about making recon-
mendations for Office. They are required to
answer the question would you, yourself,
trust him with employment requiring un-
doubted honesty, and would you recommend
him for such to your personal friends2" It
would take a very reckless politician to an
swer that question afirmatively in regard to q
good many persons who have been appointed
to Office under this administration.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-24

THE testimony of j. M. Culp before the
Inter state Commerce Commission shows how
the law has been trifed with, and is wthal a
very brazen exhibition of cool mendacity
This man is the general freight agent of the
Louisville & Nashville railroad, one of those
charged with making special discriminating
rates for the Standard Oil Trust. Confronted
with the published rates of his road and with
correspondence of his own office, first chang
ing and then repudiating them, he attempted
to break the force of the exposure bya series
Of misrepresentation so transparent that
he ought to have been ordered out of
the room. When he had finally wound
himself completely up and could go
no further, he took refuge in the
statement that the principal man in his Office
is in i'll health, and he, the witness, did not
know much about it. At this point Judge
Cooley suggested to him that he had better
consult his attorney. 1t would have been bet
ter if he had consulted his conscience at the
outset. This mans testimony goes strongly
to sustain the charge against the road. The
commission seems to have struck paying
lead at the very start, and it is to be hoped
they will push the investigation on that line
If the railroads have been violating the law
and playing into the hands of the Standard
Oil Trust, they should be made to smart for
it, and so should the Trust. if possible. What
is needed to make the inter state law respected
and respectable is that its penalties shall be
enforced.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-24

If the able doctors have any information to
give the public as to what can be done to pre-
rent typhoid fever, or how to treat it or care
Tor the patient after it has been contracted.
hey would be very welcome to newspaper
columns. But we cannot imagine anything
more useless. and worse, than discussions be-
tween physicians as to the nature of the
lever, and learned dispositions upon its awful
character and almost certain fatality. There
has been altogether too much of that. Such
ak may be good enough for medical journals
Or in medical societies, but it does not add to
the stock of knowledge of the common people,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-24

THERE were nearly 26, 600 votes cast in the
school election in st. Louis, more than 15 900
being for the citizens ticket The ST. Louis
Republican, the Democr attic paper, referring
to the result, says:
''Ihe result of the school board election is
not defeat for tine Germans It simply es-
tablishes what the Republican has along con-
tended-that there is no German class in ST.
Louis. And thus it is victory for every
hodv !"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-24

is shown in the rule whereby the Court house
was made practically untenantable on last
Monday, and which is likely to be repeated
throughout the winter at intervals, unless
the stupid regulation is modified or repealed.
But what better could be expected of board
ruled by the man Sahmf When the late
Vice president died. citizen met Sahm and
asked him if the commissioners would order
the Courthouse suitably draped. Sahm re-
piled that there was no authority for the ex-
penditure of money for such purpose, but he
would head a private subscription with five
dollars. Some man with common sense and
fit appreciation of the occasion got hold of
this precious commissioner and the disgrace
he would have perpetrated upon the county
was averted. Economy and prudence are
very necessary and very praiseworthy.
Cheese pairing and stupidity only bring the
public service into confusion, and contempt
upon those who practice them at the expense
of the best interests of community.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-24

EASTERN statesmen and editors who are
actively engaged in nominating a presi-
Dental ticket which can carry Indiana"
would excite less derision in this portion of
the Commonwealth if they were to acquaint
themselves with the preferences of the people
of Indiana. The favorite combination of
these statesmen is a thousand miles from
the one that meets the approval of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-24

Mr.. Sayre makes bold to say that Green Smith
is and was "a miserable. trembling coward, y in
stead of the bold and audacious leader he has
beea painted. Mr.. Sayre also goes on TO deny
that there any rivalry III will between
himself and Gov. Robertson, and says he will sup
port that gentleman with pleasure. The Senti-
mel has received striking confirmation of the
wisdo ON of that old saw which advises that we'll
enough should be let alone.